Best Songs of 2011: #1

The Weeknd - "The Morning"

I hope that this is what music sounds like in the future. A beautiful mix of styles and sensibilities; a mixture of smooth and rough. Music is headed in that direction it seems. Anything goes. And few songs have gone as far or as deep as "The Morning", a song that's as much Prince as it is Clapton as it is R. Kelly. It would be a towering achievement for a band at their peak; the fact that it comes from a solitary little-known Montreal musician makes it that much greater. It's a song that's low but it hits all the highs, and if it could be any higher on this list it would be.